Yeah, most of my friends are bands: Neko Case, Alison Krauss, Keane, Antje Duvekot, Death Cab for Cutie, Architecture in Helsinki, Barenaked Ladies, Snow Patrol, The Gabe Dixon Band, Beirut, Alice Smith, Ben Folds, Butterfly Boucher, Alice Russell, Iron and Wine, Dar Williams, Tegan and Sara, The Ditty Bops, Brandi Carlile, Dixie Chicks, The Eames Era, MIA, Fall Out Boy, Andrew Bird, The Fray, The Dandy Warhols, The Gossip, Green Day, Guster, Indigo Girls, Franz Ferdinand, The Decemberists, Jack Johnson, Badly Drawn Boy, Josh Ritter, Kathleen Edwards, Jamie Cullum, The Killers, Matt Costa, Bebel Gilberto, Feist, Embrace, Matt Pond PA, Psapp, Jenny Lewis, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Sufjan Stevens, Vienna Teng

Amelie, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Pleasantville, Kissing Jessica Stein, When Harry Met Sally. And Brokeback Mountain, because fine, I'm a stereotype.

Veronica Mars, Supernatural, Mythbusters, Medium, CSI, Without a Trace, Scrubs, What Not to Wear, House, boring documentary shit on the National Geographic Channel. Did I mention Veronica Mars?

Miscellaneous Steve Almond, David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs, Alice Hoffman, Bill Bryson, Jhumpa Lahiri, Philip Pullman, Michael Cunningham, Melissa Bank, Tim Flannery. Also: The Object of My Affection (Stephen McCauley), White Teeth (Zadie Smith), Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (ZZ Packer), One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez, see headline), The Magician's Assistant (Ann Patchett), Watership Down (Richard Adams), The Sex Lives of Cannibals (J. Maarten Troost), The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy), Bridget Jones's Diary (Helen Fielding), obligatory Tales of the City, The Lost Language of Cranes, Maurice.